Alexander Deebus

the Dow chart is wild because you can pinpoint exactly when Bondi testified about the Epstein files

Wow, even Trump hates ICE these days.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

"We will keep pushing, keep pressing, keep advancing" is almost catastrophically boring. When you combine writing like this with his orders not to give any quarter, then you get a speech that will only ever be quoted in a courtroom.

Those little girls didn't stand a chance!

screenshot of 2019 fda notice that says: Public Notification: Big Penis contains hidden drug ingredient. The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or use Big Penis, a product promoted for sexual enhancement. This product was identified during an examination of international mail shipments. .

"The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers not to purchase or use Big Penis"

I love a take like this, because either (a) this person is bullshitting and even they know it or (b) they're shorting oil futures and they're about to lose their shirt.

Please consider signing up or sharing. I love to talk about poetics and pedagogy! bsky.app/profile/orch...

It seems like Russia is heavily incentivized to directly help Iran. It pushes up oil prices, and they're a petrostate. And it bleeds America disproportionately, the same way we do to them in Ukraine.

when you’re arguing about politics here on bluesky just remember there’s a young sheldon spinoff called george and mandy’s first marriage that’s watched by millions of people

This is outstanding journalism

You don't see any valid use for these tools?

A YouTube thumbnail depicting a monstrous and dead-eyed Mr. Beast, mouth wide, in front of the strait of Hormuz. SURVIVING HORMUZ CHALLENGE! WHO MAKES IT THROUGH WINS BIG $1,000,000 PRIZE!

you see we didnt hit iran. iran slipped and fell in the kitchen and thats why iran has a black eye. if iran would just stop being clumsy we wouldnt have to get so mad at them. if iran would just use its brain we wouldnt have to yell at iran...

The problem with this defense of the attack on the school is that it was the first day of the war and Iran hadn't fired anything yet.

In his "autobiography" (more a loosely edited diary), John Adams on Sep 9, 1776 noted without comment—in one sentence—that Congress had officially adopted the name "United States."

He then spent over 500 words recounting an argument w/ Ben Franklin about whether to close bedroom windows at night.

A lot of people are making fun of this, but it's literally true. He is trying to TACO, and everyone else recognizes that this is absurd.

The question is just whether or not he will be able to successfully withdraw without it looking like defeat.

I don't think you have to Nostradamus to figure that bombing Iran might raise oil prices. And it seems pretty obvious that buying oil in advance of causing an oil price spike might just save Americans a lot of money. But...

...maybe there wasn't much planning?

can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives

TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 1d • Joined May '23 Birth of a Nation is a misunderstood film, IMO, depiction is not endorsement, and DW Griffith's contributions to cinematography shouldn't be overshadowed by the fact that some people decided to interpret his film as supporting controversial political agendas. O1 cartoon dog gf @jazzpomegranate.c... • 1d • Joined Jul '23 @ Bard @2 Cleric have you seen it? 0312 17 •~... TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Wait, I just found some clips online. That's... look, I'll take Griffith at his word that he wasn't trying to seem borderline-fanatically bigoted, but really man; this could have used a second draft. 03

■ TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Oh, fuck. 0 4 91104日日. TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Yes, I can see why people thought he was promoting intolerance here. • 1 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 3h • Joined May '23 Was it just impossible to find mixed-race extras back then? All of these half-breed northern soldiers are played by white actors in makeup!

目 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsk... • 2h • Joined May '23 Huh. The film's treatment of Lincoln is surprisingly sympathetic. I think I can see what Griffith was going for, but some of the choices he made really detract from the more nuanced ideas he wanted to put across (why do the black characters speak like that?) 031 04 TheCybersmith @thecybersmith.bsky.social • Joined May '23 THAT'S NOT A TRIAL! THAT@S JUST MURDER WITH EXTRA STEPS! 3:07 PM • Mar 8, 2026

friends, I have brought you a gift

Is it really a war?

Play along with Andrew Heaton's new game show.

Folks I am begging you to NEVER, EVER change your forecast for the economy based on one payrolls print. The data are too volatile, too dramatically revised, and only part of a broader mosaic of data. Hell, payrolls are only half the monthly report.

A screenshot of the Trump admin swearing they'd pay back the tariffs if needed.

lol

"For any plaintiff who is an importer, even if a stay is entered and defendants
do not prevail on appeal, plaintiffs will assuredly receive payment on their refund with interest. '[T]here is virtually no risk' to any importer that they 'would not be made whole” should they prevail on appeal.'"

A screenshot of the Trump admin swearing they'd pay back the tariffs if needed.

lol

"For any plaintiff who is an importer, even if a stay is entered and defendants
do not prevail on appeal, plaintiffs will assuredly receive payment on their refund with interest. '[T]here is virtually no risk' to any importer that they 'would not be made whole” should they prevail on appeal.'"

State Department Is Accused of Slow Assistance for Stranded Americans

NEW: Trump appointees in the State Dept. failed to urge Americans to leave the Middle East even though the US & Israel had been planning their war for weeks. Thousands are now frantic amid missile barrages. Rubio pushed out many veteran diplomats last year. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

Talking about AI these days is difficult, because motivated reasoning is so strong.

There are people who hate AI as an idea, its current effects, and its projected effects. They tend to insist it's useless & can never be useful.

And there's people who love it, who insist it can never be dangerous.

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

Trump and the conservative media ecosystem have done a ton of work to recast the Biden years as a Hoover/Carter disaster that Trump rescued us from. I do think that gets harder every month

🔗: peoplem.ag/3N7f1l5

Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, “I guess.”

📷: Aaron Schwartz/Getty